Field v. Paulding

Ingraham, F. J.

In these actions judgments were docketed in April, 1848. Executions were issued to the sheriff of Ulster County in May, 1848, upon which certain land was sold, and the plaintiff was the purchaser; on receiving the certificate from the sheriff he endorsed on the executions an acknowledgment of payment. It was subsequently discovered that the sale was void, because the executions purported to be on judgments in the Supreme Court.

The plaintiff then applied to this court in January, 1851, for an order allowing the plaintiff to issue new executions to the sheriff for the whole…